Conservative MPs vote to remove Erin O'Toole as leader

[Spazito]

A majority of Conservative MPs today voted to remove Erin O'Toole as party leader, paving the way for another leadership race only 18 months after the party finished the last one.

The result wasn't particularly close: 73 of the 118 MPs on hand — the party's caucus chair, Scott Reid, did not cast a ballot — voted to replace O'Toole with someone else.

O'Toole, a four-term Ontario MP who has fought only one federal election campaign as the party's leader, will be replaced by an interim leader later today after another caucus vote.

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Social conservative and anti-abortion activists celebrated O'Toole's decisive defeat. O'Toole's efforts to drag the party to the centre on social issues — the party suppressed debate on abortion during the last Conservative policy convention, for example — alienated some Conservative ground troops.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/otoole-leadership-vote-1.6336336

Going more fringe and extreme will only help the Liberals, imo. The Conservative party is going down the same road as the Republican party.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Good. . . . nt

[Spazito]

2. Yes, agree...

I am curious as to who will run to replace him given the MPs have made it clear they want someone more to the extreme right.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Polievre was out hobnobbing with the truckers on Saturday. . . . .nt

[Spazito]

4. No surprise there...

He certainly is on the extreme right so, if he were to run for Leader, he may well win. That would be very good news for the left, imo.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Trudeau's strategy in 2021 brilliant because it has sabotaged O'Toole & the Cons even AFTER election

[Spazito]

6. He learned much from watching his father, imo...

Pierre Trudeau was a brilliant strategist which is why he held power for such a long period of time. Justin made some fairly serious mistakes during his first term but recovered and has learned from them which showed in the 2021 election, imo.